Author - Jay Scarlet

Last week MTV announced that The Shannara Chronicles will return for season 2. While no further information regarding when season 2 will air, for how many episodes, what the plot will be, casting, or anything else has yet been released, there is no reason for fans not to speculate, that being what fans do best, so let’s begin.
With the story...

Watching this show is always a bit of an emotional rollercoaster for me – there’s a lot that is really good: great performances, amazing visual effects, etc., but there are also a lot of moments when I have to repeat the mantra ‘don’t judge by the book’ over and over in my head.
Case in point, the episode opens with...

I’m not going to lie, this one hurt.
Starting at the very beginning, our three young heroes’ path leads them to the ruins of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, where a road sign that once indicated the two cities has worn away to the point that only a handful of letters are readily legible: Sa_F___ and O__l__d. Wil grabs a...

I’m going to chalk this one up as a primarily theme-driven episode, which is rare in TV, so I applaud the writers for the attempt, even if the execution was uneven.
Let’s begin in Arborlon, where Allanon seems to have decided that Bandon should be his successor and become the next Druid. In generational stories like the Shannara...

Honestly, I have had, and continue to have, mixed feelings regarding this episode, and I nearly wrote this with a much more critical tone. But on second thought, while there are some parts that I didn’t like (and I’ll still point a few of those out), there were elements I did appreciate more, and I’m going to try to make the...

From watching the previews for this episode, I wasn’t sure about this one, but in the end I was fairly satisfied. The episode provided a great example of adapting the spirit, rather than the letter, of Terry Brooks’ work, particularly through the new character Remo.
One of the things I had seen in the lead up to the episode was the...

Ever since I’d first seen the title of this episode, I was especially excited to see it. Early artwork of the Reaper only heightened my anticipation.
In the end though…I don’t know, maybe I’m still too tied up in the books to be able to judge fairly, maybe I set myself up to be let down by allowing my expectations to get so...

My feeling after watching this episode is that it represents a degree of maturity for the show. By that I mean that almost nothing that takes place in the episode correlates precisely to the book being adapted, and yet after having watched the prior three episodes, very little seems entirely put of place or inconsistent with what has gone before...

Picking up right where we left off, the Demon moves toward Amberle and Wil tries, rather ineffectually, to protect her. Fortunately Allanon is now back up and easily dispatches the Demon, explaining that it is called a Fury and more will be coming, so they need to go. Having read the book, I would never in a million years have guessed that this...

Okay, so that wasn’t perfect, but overall I was quite satisfied.
But let’s start at the very beginning: Terry Brooks and the producers of The Shannara Chronicles have been very upfront from day one that the series would not be a blow by blow transference of [easyazon_link identifier=”0345285549″ locale=”US”...